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Oriental Movie Metropolis is really a great place.

Not only does it make the crew feel comfortable in terms of filming, but there are also various places to eat, drink and have fun.

Wu Yuan's crew has seen the world. Which film and television bases across the country have they not visited?

But Oriental Movie Metropolis still conquered everyone in the crew. They even felt that they were not here to work, but to work and vacation at the same time.

It is really that this micro-city created by Wanda is so fun. It can only be said that it is worthy of being in the real estate industry. No wonder Wanda Plaza can be opened all over the country!

However, no matter how fun Oriental Movie Metropolis is, everyone's main job cannot be delayed.

Thanks to the world-class hardware level of Oriental Movie Metropolis, the filming of "The Monkey King" was still very smooth.

Although most of the plots were shot in the studio surrounded by blue curtains, these materials will be added with blue sky and white clouds after post-production, just like normal outdoor scenes, and the audience will not find that it was shot in the studio at all.

And this is also the shooting method of most special effects blockbusters.

For example, the New York battle in "The Avengers" seems to have been filmed in New York, but in fact, two-thirds of the scenes of this battle were shot in the studio, and only one-third were shot on the streets of New York, and only some ground scenes were shot.

The really fierce battle parts were all shot in the studio, and then the materials shot on the spot in New York were cut in through post-synthesis to produce a full-real film effect.

And there is another advantage of shooting in this way, that is, there is no need to worry about the key plot shots being leaked.

After all, if such a highly anticipated movie is really shot on location, there may be hundreds of paparazzi and Reuters telephoto cameras staring at the shooting scene, and no matter what is shot, it will appear on the Internet the next day.

There will be no such worries when shooting in the studio, and the plot of the movie can be kept confidential.

The Monkey King is like this. Most of the scenes shot in the streets of Shanghai are fragmentary plots on the ground. Most of them only involve ordinary plots. For example, the battle between Dapeng Demon King and Sun Wukong, the sealing of Dapeng Demon King, the battle between Sun Wukong and Dapeng Demon King, and other important climaxes have to be shot in the studio.

For example, today, the crew is shooting the scene of Sun Wukong fighting Dapeng Demon King.

Zhang Hanyu, who plays Dapeng Demon King, has put on special effects makeup. Not only are two black custom-made large wings attached to his exposed back, but his face is also a bird head made by full mold.

His special effects makeup alone costs hundreds of thousands. Whether it is this custom-made molded bird head or the two extremely simulated wings, the cost is very expensive. Even the feathers on the wings are real Dapeng bird feathers, inserted one by one, purely handmade.

It takes a full two hours to change into such a set of clothes.

In comparison, Liu Xiao Ling Tong's makeup is much simpler. He still wears the classic Monkey King Sun Wukong look. He doesn't wear the leopard print shorts he wore when he went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, but the armor he got from the Four Seas Dragon King. He looks so handsome!

Looking at Liu Xiao Ling Tong who just changed into the costume, Wu Yuan praised him generously: "Teacher Liu, you don't look old at all. You look exactly the same as you did back then!"

Apart from anything else, Liu Xiao Ling Tong has really maintained himself well. After 30 or 40 years, he can still maintain the same state as before. It's really amazing.

"I'll leave it to you today." Wu Yuan said with a thumbs up.

"Hey, it's a movie, no matter what you ask or not, it's what I should do." Liu Xiaolingtong waved his hands covered with yellow hair and took a deep breath: "Then let's start shooting!"

"Okay!"

"All units get ready!"

The superhero battles in the special effects era look very cool in the movies, but in actual shooting, they are not that exciting, and are not even as good as the martial arts movies in the 1990s.

After all, the martial arts movies of the time really needed professional martial arts instructors to teach every punch, while most of the special effects blockbusters nowadays are just flying in the sky with wires.

However, the difference between "The Monkey King" and Hollywood superhero movies is that Sun Wukong relies on the Ruyi Jingu Bang to fight, so the battle plot of this movie is mainly based on close combat.

While Liu Xiaolingtong and Zhang Hanyu were flying in the air with wires, one used claws as weapons and the other used the golden hoop, and they fought back and forth.

The still-sharp Liu Xiao Ling Tong wields the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and his offensive is like a fire. As an actor who has engraved "Sun Wukong" into his bones, Liu Xiao Ling Tong, who has devoted his life to studying such a role, can definitely meet any high-difficulty fighting scenes required by Wu Yuan.

Needless to say, Zhang Hanyu, a tough guy, is even more unambiguous. He acts as the director asks him to act, and practices privately for the actions he can't do.

Driven by these two old predecessors, Zhang Yishan, a young actor who is relatively immature in action fighting scenes, is also rapidly enriching himself. Under the guidance of Liu Xiao Ling Tong and the martial arts instructor, he tries to adapt to action scenes.

Whether in the movie or in reality, he has a feeling that he is indeed inheriting the role of "Sun Wukong", which once made him a little confused about reality and movies.

However, this was a good thing for Wu Yuan, at least it made the filming of the crew much smoother. Zhang Yishan, the "second generation of grandson", was indeed able to endure hardships. He did not hesitate to get a lot of bruises from practicing with the stick every day.

The crew continued filming smoothly in such a very harmonious and hard-working atmosphere.

Time quickly came to the beginning of June 2018, and the "Monkey King", which had been filming for more than three months, also entered the end of filming. After Tang Yan, who joined the crew last, and Zhang Yishan played a few emotional scenes together, the filming of the film was basically completed.

On June 12, the crew of "Monkey King" completed the filming of the final scene in a low-key manner at the Oriental Movie Metropolis. After everyone ate the final cake together and took a group photo of the final scene, the crew disbanded directly on the spot.

Wu Yuan also brought the post-production team and seamlessly started the post-production work of the film.

Although the Oriental Movie Metropolis also has a top digital audio-visual center that can provide complete post-production special effects hardware equipment, even including one-stop processing of soundtracks, Wu Yuan still did not choose to stay here, but returned to the Light and Shadow Times in Beijing.

After all, over the years, the post-processing center of Light and Shadow Times has long been very mature, and the special effects company has continuously poached people from Hollywood, reaching the international top level.

After returning to Beijing, he plunged into the company's own post-production center and started the post-production of the film with the special effects department.

The sense of urgency has always been hanging in Wu Yuan's heart. Now it is the middle of 2018, and there is less than a year and a half away from the next movie winter. Time is running out!

He doesn't want "The Monkey King" to be like "The God of Conferred Gods", which was delayed for more than three years before it was released!

The 2019 Spring Festival must be caught up! (End of this chapter)